What does assignment mean?
Word: Assignment
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Assignment means a task or piece of work that someone is given to do, such as homework set by a teacher or a story given to a reporter.
Synonyms: project, homework
How do you spell assignment?
Syllables: as - sign - ment
Tricky part: The g is silent. Children who spell by sound leave it out, but it belongs to the same family as sign.
Watch out for: assinment, asignment
Memory tip: In signal and signature you can hear the g clearly. Assignment comes from the same family, so it keeps the g even though it goes quiet.
Assignment in a sentence
Example 1: For her history assignment, Kavya interviewed her grandfather about life in the 1970s.
Example 2: The reporter's first assignment was to cover the kite contest on the beach.
Example 3: Mr Iyer set an assignment on rainwater harvesting for the whole of Class 5.
Fun Fact
Assignment comes from the Latin assignare, to mark out or share out, which was built on signum, meaning a mark.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Omar uploaded his science assignmant on the school portal two days before the deadline.
a) uploaded
b) deadline
c) assignmant
d) portal
Show answer
c) assignmant. The ending is ment, the same as in movement; assignmant is the misspelt word.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) assignment
b) grammer
c) excercise
d) vocabulery
Show answer
a) assignment. Exercise has no c after the x, grammar ends in ar and vocabulary in ary.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
sngtenmasi
a) consignment
b) assignment
c) assessment
d) alignment
Show answer
b) assignment. There is a g in the jumble but no c or extra e, which rules out consignment and assessment; alignment would need an l.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
assignment
a) leisure
b) break
c) reward
d) task
Show answer
d) task. A task is a job you are given, which is exactly what an assignment is.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The editor gave Rohan an assignment to photograph the city flower show. What was Rohan given?
a) a job to carry out
b) a new camera to keep
c) a prize for his photos
d) a ticket to travel home
Show answer
a) a job to carry out
2. 'Her first assignment as a doctor was in a village clinic.' Which word could replace assignment here?
a) posting
b) holiday
c) salary
d) uniform
Show answer
a) posting
